Table 4.

Effect of dietary chestnut wood extract supplementation on meat quality in broilers.¹

Item	CON	CTC	CWE	SEM	P value
pH-45 min	6.69	6.73	6.67	0.05	0.162
pH-24 h	5.84b	6.02a,b	6.16a	0.01	0.027
Drip loss (%)	2.79	3.13	2.82	0.23	0.478
L∗	47.46	46.84	47.06	0.56	0.723
a∗	2.41	2.59	2.81	0.15	0.593
b∗	9.06	8.20	8.86	0.51	0.391

SEM, pooled standard error of the means. Different superscript lowercase letters in the same row means significantly different at P < 0.05.

Abbreviations: CON, control; CTC, antibiotic (chlortetracycline); CWE, chestnut wood extract.

¹Data represented the mean value of 7 samples per treatment.